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Positions

Positions

Positions widget have 5 tabs, there are:

  • Positions - management for opened positions.
  • Closed positions - contains all closed positions for the selected period.
  • Orders - all data on your active orders is displayed here.
  • Recent orders - this tab displays all data on your executed, rejected or cancelled orders.
  • Assets - this tab is mainly for those who trade deliverable instruments, it shows the open currency position by day, i.e. the amounts that will come and go in the next few days for settlements on deliverable instruments.

The gear button allows you to customize the visibility of the widget's tabs.

The button with the image of three bars in the Positions, Closed Positions, Orders and Recent Orders tabs allows you to customize the visibility of columns in each of them.

Positions

The tab contains information about currently opened positions on the account.

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The following columns are presented in the position table:

NameDescription
Instrumentname of an instrument you work with.
Position IDID of the position in the system.
Amountamount of an instrument you work with.
Averagesum of prices of all trades in the position divided by the sum of all trades amounts.
Breakevenprice at which the client can close the position without loss.
Open Datea date when position has been opened.
Initial position valueaverage position volume since its opening.
Total P/Ltotal profit/loss on the position, since its opening.
Total P/L %total profit/loss on the position in percentage, since its opening. Calculated as Total P/L / Initial position value * 100
Daily P/Lthe result of your account for the current trading day.
Daily P/L %Daily P/L value expressed as a percentage.
Market Pricemarket price of an instrument.
Convert Pricerevaluation rate to the currency that is specified in the PREFERRED CURRENCY setting.
Market Valuethe price an asset gets in a marketplace.
Realized P/La position which has been initiated and then closed.
Unrealized P/Lis a reflection of what profit or loss could be realized if the position were closed at that time.
Detailed P/LWhen clicking on "Details" you can see your P/L type, last result and Total of P/L.
Sideshows the side of the position.
Open Trade P/LP/L for opening a position.
Close Trade P/LP/L calculated for the part of the position that was closed.

If you click on the name of the instrument in the widget, the table will display information about the trades that formed the position:

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The following information is displayed for trades in the position:

TitleDescription
Typedetails of the time and date the trade was opened
Amountthe amount of the instrument in the trade
Ratethe price of the instrument in the trade
Market Valuemarket value of the instrument in the trade (calculated as amount of instrument in the trade * market value of the instrument * conversion rate)
Unrealized P/Lprofit or loss that could have been received on the trade if the position had been closed at the moment

Click on Details in the position of interest to view its last and total swaps (if the position is swapped) as well as open and close trade PL:

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The widget provides a possibility to set Stop Loss and Take Profit orders (the Add buttons in the S/L and T/P columns). Clicking on the button will open a sidepage for placing such orders:

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Field nameDescription
Trade datetrade date for the instrument
Trade amounttrade amount for the instrument (specified in the format amount of instrument in the trade@instrument price at the moment of the trade)
Market pricecurrent market price of buying and selling of the instrument
Price typeWhen entering a price, the system will calculate the expected profit/loss when making a trade at this price. Estimated profit or loss can be calculated either by Average price or by Marketprice.
S/Lprice set in Stop Loss order
Expected lossloss on the position in case of Stop Loss order execution
T/Pprice set in Take Profit order
Expected profitprofit on the position in case of Take Profit order execution

After clicking the ADD button, the corresponding orders will be placed in the system.


The widget has an option to close all positions of the selected category (CLOSE button next to the category name).

The option to partially close positions is also available: The PARTIAL CLOSE button appears when hovering over a line with a position. Clicking on it opens the position close sidepage. In the fields of the Close position size block you can specify the amount of the instrument or the percentage of the existing position for placing a counter order at the market price.

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The following fields are also represented in the sidepage:

Field nameDescription
Position sizethe size of an existing position in the instrument
Market pricemarket price of the instrument
PLcurrent profit/loss on the position
Trading scheduletrading schedule for the instrument

After clicking the CLOSE POSITION button, an order will be placed at the market price of the instrument.


If you hover the cursor over the position status in the table, a corresponding window with a notification appears if the exchange is closed:

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Indicator calculations

Open Trade PL = (First Open Trade Amount x First Open Rate + N-th Open Trade Amount x N-th Open Rate) - Total Trade Amount x Market Rate.

Close Trade P/L = Total P/L - Open Trade PL + Position commission + Position swap

Average = (Volume of the first trade * Price of the first trade + ... + Volume of the n-th trade * Price of the n-th trade) / (Volume of the first trade + ... + Volume of the n-th trade)

Please note! Only trades that increase the position are included in the calculation and are calculated modulo.
Also note! For shares in pounds, the calculation is done in pence. For correct calculation according to the formula, the obtained value should be multiplied by 100.

Closed positions

The table contains information about closed positions.

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The filter in the upper part of the tab allows you to specify the time range for which a selection of closed positions will be formed.

NameDescription
Instrumentthe name of the instrument for which the position was closed
Position IDposition identifier in the system
Amountthe amount of the instrument in the position
Absolute amountthe amount of the instrument in the position, calculated modulo
SideBuy or Sell
Detailed P/Lif you click on Details in the column, the information on profits and losses received at position closing will be displayed
Open trade IDopening trade identifier in the system
Open order IDopening order identifier in the system (if any)
Open priceprice of the instrument at the moment of position opening
Open timedate and time of position opening
Open dateposition opening date
Close trade IDclosing trade identifier in the system
Close order IDclosing order identifier in the system (if any)
Close priceinstrument price at the moment of position closing
Close timedate and time of position closing
Trade Datethe date of formation of the trade that closes the position
Closed trade P/LP/L of the closing trade in the currency of the asset, calculated for the part of the position that was closed.

Orders

The table contains information about the placed orders.

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Table contents:

NameDescription
Instrumentname of the instrument for which the order was placed
IDID of the placed order
Sideside of the placed order (buy or sell)
Amountamount of instrument in the placed order
Order priceprice of the instrument specified in the placed order
Stop priceinstrument price at which the placed order will be executed (for orders with Stop type)
S/LStop Loss price specified in the order
T/PTake Profit price specified in the order
Filledthe price at which the order was executed
Filledvolume and percentage of the executed order
Trailing Stoptriggering price of the trailing stop order
Typetype of placed order
Durationduration of the placed order
Statusstatus of the placed order
Value datevalue date of the instrument
Last quote timethe time when the system received the last quote for the instrument before the order was placed
Client request timetime of clicking the BUY/SELL button
Createdtime of actual order placement in the system
Expiration timeexpiration time of the order, if specified (for orders with GTD duration)
Execute on expirationfor orders with Trailing Stop type. If the expiration date set in the order expires - it is executed
Remainingremaining amount of instrument in the order (if the order is partially executed)
Execution typeorder execution type (can be executed automatically or manually by the broker, some orders can combine both types of execution)
Use Hedge positionthe value Yes is assigned if the account is traded in Hedge mode
Commentthe comment specified in the order
Please note! Values in the fields Amount, Order price and Stop price can be edited by clicking on the value in the field.

The CANCEL ALL button in the upper right corner of the widget allows you to cancel all placed orders.

The trash can button allows you to cancel a specific placed order.

The CHAT button opens a chat with the broker on the placed order.

Recent orders

This tab contains information about already executed trade orders:

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In the date filter you can specify the period for which the orders in the table will be displayed.

When selecting one or several instruments in the table, the line next to the date filter will display summary information (trade volume, average price of the instrument in trades and number of fully executed trades) on orders with it.

The composition of the table is similar to that in the table of orders, except for information about trailing stop orders, which is not represented here.

Assets

The tab contains information about the assets in the account that differ from the account currency:

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In the filter, you can specify the date for which the table will display asset information.

NameDescription
Assetan asset for which a profit or loss has been formed on the account
Totalthe amount of profit or loss in the currency of the asset
(USD) equivalentthe equivalent of the total profit or loss in the currency of the account
Position on (date specified in the filter)the amount of profit or loss in the currency of the asset on the specified date
(USD) equivalentthe equivalent of the profit or loss in the currency of the account on the specified date
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